I like you, and I think you like me, and I’d prefer we remember that even if we’re talking online through text this time!
Ah, yes, I didn’t respond to you as the person I know and have a relationship with in my comment. I regularly find it hard to connect online commenting to the person I’m responding to, and I think my comment does read as weirdly challenging. Sorry about that Val.
Nonetheless, there are important trade-offs against being social on a place like LessWrong—for example, I don’t want to take up the time of the hundreds of people who read the comments, and in general, I won’t be having a lot of social discussion in the comments. For example, I’ve just cut from this comment two paragraphs of my thought processes that wrote such an impersonal original comment (will send you them privately).
I just spent a while not talking about anything in your post, so I’ll finish and not write more comments here (if you want Val, I’m happy to discuss this more offline). I’ll now write an object level response to your comment :-)
Added: I might not, it’s 6am here. I should really sleep soon.
Ah, yes, I didn’t respond to you as the person I know and have a relationship with in my comment. I regularly find it hard to connect online commenting to the person I’m responding to, and I think my comment does read as weirdly challenging. Sorry about that Val.
Nonetheless, there are important trade-offs against being social on a place like LessWrong—for example, I don’t want to take up the time of the hundreds of people who read the comments, and in general, I won’t be having a lot of social discussion in the comments. For example, I’ve just cut from this comment two paragraphs of my thought processes that wrote such an impersonal original comment (will send you them privately).
I just spent a while not talking about anything in your post, so I’ll finish and not write more comments here (if you want Val, I’m happy to discuss this more offline). I’ll now write an object level response to your comment :-)
Added: I might not, it’s 6am here. I should really sleep soon.